TEXTILES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIV, Issue XLIV, 23 January 1924, Page 5

TEXTILES.

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\ MELBOURNE, Jan. 22. The organiser of the Textile. Workers Union states that the official statistics disclose that during the past few months, nine Australian firms of textile manufacturers were forced to close, involving a loss of £300,000, which was spent in order to establish the industries. Over 30 per cent, of the woollen goods and knitted garments on sale in Britain are the products of European countries, where deflated currency exists.

He claims that a great flood of textiles which is coming to Australia is not of British origin, and asks the Federal Government to save the Australian textile industry by applying the antidumping clauses of the Industries Preservation Act to all textiles coming to Australia by way of England.